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Lauren Holiday (1987– ), US Women's National Soccer player, Olympic gold medalist, 2015 Women's World Cup champion; Lester Horton (1906–1953), dancer and choreographer; Tommy Hunter (1986– ), Major League baseball pitcher for Philadelphia Phillies; Kenny Irwin (1969–2000), NASCAR driver; Jack Johnson (1987– ) NHL player
Indianapolis (/ ˌ ɪ n d i ə ˈ n æ p ə l ɪ s / ⓘ IN-dee-ə-NAP-ə-lis), [10] [11] colloquially known as Indy, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. Indianapolis is situated in the state's central till plain region along the west fork of the White River.
L. S. Ayres and Company was a department store based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and founded in 1872 by Lyman S. Ayres.Over the years its Indianapolis flagship store, which opened in 1905 and was later enlarged, became known for its women's fashions, the Tea Room, holiday events and displays, and the basement budget store.
Indiana Avenue is a historic area in downtown and is one of seven designated cultural districts in Indianapolis, Indiana. Indiana Avenue was, during its glory days, an African American cultural center of the area. [2] The Indiana Avenue Historic District within the area was designated a United States national historic district in 1987. [3]
Madam C.J. (Sarah Breedlove) Walker (1867–1919), an African-American hair care and beauty products entrepreneur around the turn of the century, began development of the Walker Building and its theatre prior to her death in 1919; however, her daughter, A'Lelia Walker, in collaboration with Freeman B. Ransom, the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company's attorney, supervised the completion of ...
Upon completion, it was the second-tallest air traffic control tower in the U.S. and among the ten tallest in the world. [87] It is the tallest habitable building outside downtown Indianapolis. [88] 3 Indiana State Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: 284.6 (87) 3 1902 Monument
Lyman Skinner Ayres II (July 5, 1908 – December 28, 1996) was president of L. S. Ayres and Company from 1954 to 1962 and its chairman of the board from 1962 to 1973. The flagship store in the Ayres family's Midwestern retail department store chain was founded by his grandfather, Lyman S. Ayres, in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1872.